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Editorial: Golf course water well still a bad idea

Original post made
on Apr 1, 2014

In the midst of a debilitating drought and just two years after Menlo Park's Environmental Quality Commission turned thumbs down on the idea, the commission once again recommended against proceeding with a proposal for the city to drill a well in a public park and pump the water up the hill to irrigate the Sharon Heights golf course.

Water is a very complicated issue. Residents, not just around Nealon Park, had been asking Staff to shut down the "project' for four years. Four years. Four years of staff time spent, four years our tax dollars paid for this 'non-project' for a private country club. We were misled, we were circumnavigated. However, the worse thing was the Staff's ignoring residents, rather than advocating for them. Rather than stepping up and saying this project needs to be killed based on XYZ, Staff pushed on. Sad.